Abubakar Salim was looking forward to a “really chill” week until he was needed on set. Salim has already completed a filming block in Ghana but this week’s shoot is closer to home in east London. After fetching the coffees – a generous gesture that his loquacious conversation lives up to – Salim settles in to chat House Of The Dragon. “I think that’s enough for Alyn,” Salim says. “I mean, it wasn’t really a thing on such a huge, fantastical scale as this [show].”